Burn-out

From survival to life.

Burn-out is not caused by one thing. The road to recovery is therefore not as simple as changing one habit or removing a few outside influences. "Just working a little less", "more time for myself" or "exercising more" are good intentions, but not enough on their own to break the pattern that led to the burn-out.

Then what?

You are probably wondering: so what? Especially when you are completely empty, then it is a big job to look for the answers you need to get back on top. A reaching hand is worth gold. You can feel it coming: we are happy to offer you that helping hand. We know from experience that it is a lot easier together.

To the core

With a sprained ankle, you know almost immediately what caused it, what to do about it and how to prevent it in the future. Burnouts are much more personal and therefore a lot more complex to treat (and prevent!). The way out goes, perhaps against your intuition, through the core. Looking for the causes and the patterns that caused you to get out of balance, and rebuild yourself from there.

Vulnerable and honest

To get out of it completely, you will have to make yourself vulnerable and be honest with yourself and the people around you. That is scary, but often there are quite a few answers in that honesty. Admit it: deep down we know surprisingly well what we need and what we don't.

That damn mirror

So it's time to look in that dreaded mirror. But then really. What are we doing? What things really matter? Why do we actually do what we do? And do we really find the things we fight for so important, or is that something that has grown so slowly, but no longer suits us?

Looking for balance

One of the few aspects that all burnouts have in common is that things have become unbalanced. This usually happens gradually. It creeps in, over a period of several years. And then—suddenly we feel—everything collapses. We are therefore inclined to think "this was the reason, so I shouldn't do that anymore". But in reality, that long-standing build-up, the creeping pattern that has left us out of balance, is the real cause.